Posts Tagged ‘ashes 2013’

I’ve never met Simon Kerrigan. Come to think of it, before last week I don’t think I’d even heard of Simon Kerrigan. But I know a bit about him. When he was a boy he fell in love with the game o...
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This morning I make the pilgrimage to The Oval to pay homage to our Ashes heroes. They say you should never meet your heroes, so perhaps it’s just as well I’ll be spending the next four or five da...
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Being an adoptive Australian cricket tragic is, as I've now discovered, almost more soul destroying than it was being a genuine English cricket tragic during the 1990s. As regular readers will know, m...
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By the time you read this the fourth Ashes test will be well under way. Indeed, if you are an especially slow reader, or Graham Swann has managed to successfully pick his way through another of the Be...
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“What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?”, wrote CLR James in the preface to Beyond a Boundary. I’d like to add a modern postscript: “What do they know of cricket who are stuck in ...
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If Andy Murray is worthy of a knighthood, what honours and riches do we plan to shower on Jimmy Anderson? On a pitch carrying all the menace of a sandpit, England’s premier fast bowler ran himself i...
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Outside, the sun was shining. The birds were chirping gaily, but all else was still and peaceful. The perfect bank holiday morning. Then I read them. 10 words. Just 10 little words. Derek Pringle, the...
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